High in the cloud forests of northern Colombia, a people who see themselves as guardians of the planet have been…

Soybeans have quietly become one of the most strategically important crops on Earth, feeding people and animals while anchoring global…

Scientists are cataloguing life on Earth at a pace that would have seemed impossible a generation ago, yet a growing…

For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos…

Drug discovery is shifting from static snapshots to moving pictures. Instead of inferring how medicines work from end results, researchers…

Scientists have crossed a startling new frontier in bioengineering: they can now fabricate intricate three-dimensional objects inside living cells. Instead…

Plants are quietly borrowing tricks from bacteria, repurposing foreign genes to build complex molecules that look a lot like tomorrow’s…

Far off the New England coast, one of Earth’s rarest mammals is surviving on a food source so small it…